Welcome to "The Bag Drop" featuring pro golfer Tony Finau. The PGA Tour star takes us through every club in his golf bag. From his driver to a patented PING putter, Tony shares the unique details and personal stories behind each piece of equipment while providing tips and insights on how he uses each club to perfect his game.
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00:00Driver, backup driver if I break the shaft, which I've done many times, two eight irons in here, trusty beats here, four wedges
00:06I need to be specific with the yardages, nine iron, great leather glove, very special putter here, golf ball
00:15I'm Tony Finau and this is the bag drop
00:17This is my gamer driver, ping G430, nine degree driver, 45 inches
00:31This is my favorite club because it goes the furthest. I mean stock yardage
00:34My driver is about 310, 315 in there. The good thing is I can't really lie because this machine will tell me how far it goes
00:48Little bit further, 331
00:50What a lot of people don't know about me is I was being recruited to play basketball at Weber State, the same college
00:56Damian Lillard went to, we were being recruited at the same time, we're the same age
00:59I am 6'4". On the golf course, I look like a giant. On the basketball court, not as much
01:03I'd be more like a point guard. I definitely think it's an advantage to be tall
01:06You just have to know how to use your length
01:08My wingspan is 6'9". Imagine an arc. The golf club works on a huge arc and because of my long arms
01:14I'm able to create really a bigger arc than anybody else. So that should equal further distance, which most of the time it does
01:21Next club, my backup driver. This is a special head cover I got from my wife
01:26My wife is my personal stylist
01:28She does a good job along with Nike just putting together my outfits for the week
01:32Anybody that likes my style or what I'm wearing on the golf course, you can thank my wife
01:38For me, I always need a backup driver because I swing the club so fast if my face cracks on the other one or if
01:43I break the shaft, which I've done many times. I need to have a backup in place
01:52181 ball speed and 320 in the air
01:55On to the next one
01:57Next up, we've got the 3-wood Callaway 3-wood AI smoke
02:00As you can see, it's not very clean
02:02Which just means that I use it a lot
02:03The driver is the only club in the golf bag where you're trying to have a level angle of attack or a little bit up
02:09Because the ball is teed up
02:11The 3-wood is very similar angle of attack as an iron meaning I can go ahead and hit the ground with this 3-wood
02:16A lot of people like to sweep it. I actually like to take a divot when I'm hitting it off the ground
02:21Didn't look like a big divot, but there's definitely a divot there
02:26On to the next. Now, I know I said earlier that my favorite golf club in the bag was the driver, but I lied
02:32My trusty driving 3-iron. I've been hitting this for 10 years, which in golf club years is about 80 years old
02:38I've hit more fairways with this than any other club in my bag. For that reason, it's just my favorite club
02:44Really good. Far and straight
02:49Yeah, kind of like that
02:51Seven tour wins. One on the Corn Ferry and six on the PGA Tour and I've used this club for all seven
02:56So this is the only club I've used for all my professional wins on the big stage
03:01We got the 4-iron. Longest hole-in-one I've ever made was with my 4-iron. 230-yard part three. Little uphill
03:07Beautiful little cut shot in there. Landed over the hill
03:09I didn't know where the ball went at the time, walked up to the green, didn't see a ball on the green, looked in the
03:14hole, and it was in the hole
03:17Solid
03:19That was a good strike
03:225-iron
03:23Hole 17 at Augusta National in 2018
03:26It was my sixth birdie in a row and it was a sixth shot from right of the fairway and I must have curved this
03:31golf ball
03:3350 yards, 60 yards. I was like 175 yards and I hit a huge slice 5-iron. See if we can recreate that here
03:48Yeah, that's a pretty big slice
03:52Thank you, sir. On to the 6-iron. Now the 6-iron
03:56I'm trying to think of some stories with the 6-iron and I don't know that I really have one
04:00It's got to be in here for some reason. Let's go find out why
04:04Ooh
04:06You guys hear that sound? That's why that club's in there
04:10Nice club. Next up we got the 7-iron
04:13Probably my favorite iron and the only reason being my favorite number is 7. I graduated in
04:192007. 7 birdies in a row is the most I've ever made. 7 is my favorite number and so 7-iron is my favorite iron
04:24I should say graduated high school in
04:272007. If I speak and you don't understand what I'm saying is because my highest level of education is high school
04:34I
04:36Don't do that will do okay. I have two 8-irons in here. This is the DST compressor
04:46And as you can see the shaft is bent you can clearly see that this shaft is bent, right
04:52The reason why it's bent is it helps me compress the golf ball when you're swinging a golf club. You want your hands to be
04:59Leading the shot and it helps having a tool like this where I can truly lean the shaft to make sure I'm making good contact
05:06And like this compressor said compress the golf ball
05:13All right, we're on to the real 8-iron. When I'm doing my warm-up every time for tournaments
05:17I hit all my wedges. I hit my 8-iron compressor. Then I move on to this club after this club
05:22I hit the 4-iron 3-wood driver. So this is a club that I hit every single day on the driving range
05:29A big reggae fan, obviously Bob Marley, UB40, Lucky Dubay, grew up on a lot of hip-hop as well
05:36R&B and things like that, but I pretty much listen to anything really
05:40While we're talking about music, I got my trusty Beats here
05:42Beats did a beautiful job in creating a really cool Masters Beats for me
05:47Got my logo on there inspire someone from my foundation
05:511997 to 2024
05:54The significance of that is I started playing golf in the summer of 97 because a guy named Tiger Woods won the Masters
06:00And I thought he looked pretty cool. So I was like, why don't I try this?
06:03You'll see me wearing these on the golf course and every time I practice I always have my beats on
06:09Closer you get to the hole the better you have to be
06:11I'm within a hundred yards of the green pretty often. So I need to be specific with the yardages. I got a pitching wedge a
06:20Gap wedge
06:24Sand wedge when I was little I used to think it was a sandwich. I loved food, but it's not a sandwich. It's a sand wedge
06:34Lob wedge
06:40I was in the Corn Fairy Tour finals in 2014
06:42I get to the 16th hole of the final round and I get over my golf ball and I put my club behind the ball
06:47And the ball just drops down in golf. That's a penalty shot because your ball moved
06:52Nobody was around just me
06:53I'm the only one that saw it would have been really easy for me to not call the penalty shot and
06:59Just gain that extra advantage as something that I would have liked to have at the time going into the PGA Tour in a better
07:05Position, but I called the penalty shot on me because I just knew that was the right thing. The lesson there is
07:10Honesty always serves you. Well, I end up having a great rookie season despite that and
07:14I slept great at night after that
07:22Nice club, this is my 9-iron should go about 162 yards
07:31170 I'm a little amped up right now
07:35There's my trusty Nike glove great leather glove. I got a very special putter here
07:40It's a putter that I helped patent with the guys at ping
07:42It's a very unique looking putter the reasoning behind this was I used to love hitting putts off the toe of the putter
07:48You could imagine I would like to hit putts off the toe of the putter strokes like this and I always thought to myself
07:54Well, why can't I make a putter that looks like that? The putter has to conform to certain?
07:59Dynamics, this is what we came out with. It's actually a conforming club meaning I could use it in a PGA Tour event
08:03It's really cool
08:04I have the actual patent for it with my name on it as well as the guys at ping but it's a special club to
08:08Me because it's something that I helped ping with
08:10Something that I'm very proud of maybe sometime down the line. I'll be able to use it on the PGA Tour event
08:15Oh
08:18I can't not break
08:21Every time I play this is how I mark my golf ball. We got initials on there
08:25I'll mark my balls with all my kids and my wife's
08:28Initials on them and just depending on how they perform they stay in or they go out
08:37I'm extremely blessed to play the game of golf
08:39I've been very fortunate to have played it at the highest level
08:42Compete against the best players in the world and it's truly been my dream my whole life to do that
08:46And now that I'm living it to be able to share it with the people that I love most is extremely special for me
08:51And that's everything in my bag